Wat houdt een midlife-crisis in? Krijgt iedereen er last van? Is het mogelijk er zonder schade uit te komen of kan iemand zelfs beter af zijn na die tijd? De midlife-crisis is een even verwarrend als normaal verschijnsel. De kindertijd is een voorbereidingsperiode op het volwassen zijn. Jonge volwassenen zoeken hun eigen manier om door [...]
A human life has an end. The upper limit is around 100 years, few people live longer than a century. For years scientists have wondered why someone is aging. Some cells in the body are constantly replaced by new, but not others. It has been given to the existence of a “biological clock” that is [...]
As you get older to change the heart and blood vessels, even without any disease process. The heart muscle becomes less elastic and the metabolic processes providing progressively less energy than the center needs. The pumping action of the heart is therefore less efficient heart muscle and should increase efforts to the same amount of [...]
With aging, there are several, almost imperceptible, changes occur in the digestive tract. Usually do not notice it before middle age passed. The swallowing movements of the esophagus are slightly slower, but this change is too small to be noticed. The same applies to the movements that the ingested food through the intestines push through. [...]
Although we tend to think that bones are hard and unyielding and not change, living bone is continually renews and adapts itself constantly to the demands which are made. For example, someone engaging in hard physical work with his arms will not only get thicker and stronger arm muscles than someone who does heavy work, [...]
As you get older, losing the largest organ of the body, skin, some of its elasticity and its natural moisture. The skin becomes thinner and wrinkles begin to form in old age in some places as deep furrows and folds visible. In middle age in certain parts of the skin a little bit to hang. [...]
With menopause is the cessation of menstruation of the woman meant. (The word menopause is derived from the Greek words for one month and pausis to stop.) When the menopause comes to an end to the woman the opportunity to have children. There are many widespread misconceptions about the transition: the transition that would end [...]
In men, no women with menopause the same period. With aging, the production of testosterone (a male hormone) gradually decreases, but does not entirely. When a man has not an illness, he continues to produce seed and keeps his sexual potency until well into the eighties or even older. Yet there are also men, as [...]
Whether you are healthy, sick or disabled, you can have your own sexual identity and the desire to give expression to it. However, illness and disability affect how you respond sexually to one another. A number of medical problems that may affect your sex life is discussed below. Heart attack. Chest pain, shortness of breath [...]